I'm not sure I understand
Mar. 31st, 2007 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThere is much discussion around here these days about a law that would require pharmacists to either provide the morning after pill upon request or in some other way (like tell the requester where, very nearby, it can be purchased).
There are few other rights that I treasure more dearly than my reproductive rights. I came of age when abortion was illegal and birth control was difficult to find easily. Those days were crewel and should never ever ever be revisited even for a minute.
But, I am not at all comfortable with a law that requires a private retailer (which is what a pharmacists really is) to sell anything. That does not make any sense to me and I think it is as wrong as the antiquated laws were.
I don't understand it.
EDIT: To clarify... I honestly believe that every female of child bearing age should have easy (and, free would be great) access to any kind of birth control she wants for whatever reason she wants it. And I would love to have laws that required that.
What I can't get my arms around is the hit that free enterprise has to take take. If the relgiously bent pharmacist is required to do business against his beliefs, what does this do to my beliefs and my ability to live and work by them?
There are few other rights that I treasure more dearly than my reproductive rights. I came of age when abortion was illegal and birth control was difficult to find easily. Those days were crewel and should never ever ever be revisited even for a minute.
But, I am not at all comfortable with a law that requires a private retailer (which is what a pharmacists really is) to sell anything. That does not make any sense to me and I think it is as wrong as the antiquated laws were.
I don't understand it.
EDIT: To clarify... I honestly believe that every female of child bearing age should have easy (and, free would be great) access to any kind of birth control she wants for whatever reason she wants it. And I would love to have laws that required that.
What I can't get my arms around is the hit that free enterprise has to take take. If the relgiously bent pharmacist is required to do business against his beliefs, what does this do to my beliefs and my ability to live and work by them?
